Where does Kratos LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kratos LLC ranks #36,155 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Kratos LLC hold?

Kratos LLC holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Kratos LLC's Innovation Score?

Kratos LLC has an Innovation Score of 37.3 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kratos LLC focus on?

Kratos LLC's top technology area is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy) with 7 patents, ranking #684 of 2,332 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kratos LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kratos LLC's recent grant velocity is +33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Kratos LLC's patents?

Kratos LLC's patents average 21.7 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Kratos LLC patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Kratos LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kratos ranks #36,155 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 4 technology areas.

#36,155
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.3/100): 21.7
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R36155 · US Corporation #36,155 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #36,155/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kohler India Private
CPC-NARROW H01M · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kohler India Corporation Private Limited (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Kratos’s 37.3 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 7.2 pts (19%) Velocity 10.0 pts (27%) Breadth 7.1 pts (19%) Claim depth 13.0 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Paradromics · near

37
Kratos · this assignee

37
Össur hf · near

37
RPC Bramlage · near

37
Switch Materials · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kratos's Innovation Score is 37.3/100 (top 44% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Kratos?

Each dot is one of Kratos’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Kratos’s own 21.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Kratos vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Kratos's grants concentrate

Kratos LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Kratos sits between Kohler India Corporation Private Limited and Kuehnle AgroSystems, Inc..

Kratos's three-year grant acceleration

Kratos LLC shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Kohler India Priv…

7
Koike Sanso Kogyo

7
Kongsberg

7
Kraft Tool

7
Kringstad Ironwor…

7
Kronotec

7
Kryptos Biotechno…

7
Kuehnle Agrosyste…

7
Kratos ◀

7

What this shows Kratos holds 7 patents at rank #36,151, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kratos

By rank, the assignees closest to #36,151 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01M (Processes OR Means)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Kratos's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kratos, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01M (Processes OR Means), Kratos ranks #684 of 2,332 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Switch Materials, Inc. 37 RPC Bramlage GmbH 37 Össur hf 37 Paradromics, Inc. 37

Kratos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Kratos LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	28.6%
2019	1	14.3%
2021	1	14.3%
2022	1	14.3%
2023	1	14.3%
2024	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Kratos LLC patent most?

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 7

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 7

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 4

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Kratos LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kratos LLC's lead technology class is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01M
Ranked #36,155 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kratos LLC against Kohler India Corporation Private Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.3/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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